The man who murdered Jo Cox in cold blood, who shot her, stabbed her, then continued to brutally kick her when she was on the ground, was apparently a "loner".

Neighbours expressed their shock at the atrocity he has committed, because he was "quiet" and he also had a strong work ethic.

He worked on people's gardens and he had said that he believed that "hard work" could cure mental illness.

That's a particularly right wing notion, by the way.

He was clearly wrong, and so are the Tories.

As usual people don't pay enough attention to details. Since when was being "quiet" or "hard working" anything to do with being a decent, humane, moral, empathic and good citizen?

He is a neo nazi, he was living quietly and planning a cold-bloodied murder, for crying out loud.

All those dutiful people out there conforming to the frightfully exploitative tory redefinition of our social norms seem to fail to recognise how empty such superficial gestures are, and how they lack meaning, when they are premised on repression, festering hatred, fear of others and such rage-driven motives.

Sure, it was only one person who pulled the trigger. Notice how quickly his local community disassociated themselves from him, prefering to see him as a pathological mystery, as someone hiding in their midst, rather than as a member of the community, sharing an intersubjective realm of cultural meanings.

The linguistic downgrading of human life requires dehumanising metaphors: a dehumanising socio-political system using a dehumanising language, and it has become familiar and all-pervasive: it has seeped almost unnoticed into our lives. Because we permitted it to do so. (Though some of us do challenge it, we need the public to recognise their moral and rational boundaries are being systematically pushed).

Shame on us for allowing a group of vile social Darwinist, supremicist bigots to shape the world we inhabit, norms and to intrude on our thoughts, attitudes and definitions of what is right and wrong and how we should be.

​ Shame on us

Thanks to Sue Jones for sharing her thoughts.You can find her online where she writes as Kitty Jones​https://kittysjones.wordpress.com

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